Hi On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Gabriel Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not exactly excited to enter a possible flame fest when I'm happy > doing my hacking and having users find me and tell me they like the > results. But, in case others agree GNOME could benefit from this, I'm > proposing PDF Mod for inclusion in GNOME 2.30. ... > Miscellaneous: People have raised the idea of adding PDF Mod's > functionality to Evince. Some good reasons why having them separate > is best: > 1) Each app is simpler this way; users can't get into edit mode > accidentally and be confused > 2) Quoting Evince maintainers: "Editing capabilities are actually out > of scope in evince, see bug #314683." > 3) In that bug they encourage the creation of a tool like PDF Mod
This makes sense, but I think that a good solution to this problem would be to not bundle PDF Mod with the default desktop, but have a menu item or some such in Evince which would say, "Edit this PDF ..." and integrate with packagekit/whoever in some way to install PDF Mod, or run it if already existing. Sam _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
